Unofficial Podcast feed for The Church of the Heavenly Rest Sermons

Although I don't comment much about religion here, I feel a need to post this so folks know it's out there.

Recently I have been attending The Church of the Heavenly Rest here in New York City. One of the interesting things about the church is that they post their sermons on the Media and Communications Page or their site. On the down side, they don't have any xml feed available so I'd have to remember to download to go the the site, download the mp3, add it to iTunes, etc etc. So, always a person to spend a couple of hours scripting something to save 5 mins of time, I wrote a script that scrapes the page, and creates an iTunes compatible RSS feed with enclosures. In addition to the mp3 files, any PDFs posted on the site are also included in the feed. I'm running the script once a day so there might be some delay between something being posted on their site and mine.

It isn't perfect yet, I'm still working on cleaning up the descriptions and such but it's downloading the files just fine.

One Cavaet: The script is based on the format of the page, if it changes, the script will break.

Here is a link to the feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/seanreiser/heavenlyrest

For those curious I have uploaded the code here (it's still dirty, but it works): http://seanreiser.com/files/hr.php.txt

Share and enjoy!